On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
# chown Administrator -BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator "-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R chown: cannot access `\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002': No such file or directory
# chown Administrator "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
?
maybe ...
# chown -R -- Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002'
Make sure all options are before the --, which forces end of options, IIANM.
-Bob